The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
BRAM STOKERBefore I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
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It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play.
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The blood is the life!
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For life be, after all, only a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards
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Whether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
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There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
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It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
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I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
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But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall — all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.
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But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
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